Valerie Traub

Desire and Anxiety (Routledge Revivals)

Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In both feminist theory and Shakespearean criticism, questions of sexuality have consistently been conflated with questions of gender. First published in 1992, this book details the intersections and contradictions between sexuality and gender in the early modern period. Valerie Traub argues that desire and anxiety together constitute the erotic in Shakespearean drama - circulating throughout the dramatic texts, traversing 'masculine' and 'feminine' sites, eliciting and expressing heterosexual and homoerotic fantasies, embodiments, and fears. This is the first book to present a non-normalizing account of the unconscious and the institutional prerogatives that comprise the erotics of Shakespearean drama. Employing feminist, psychoanalytic, and new historical methods, and using each to interrogate the other, the book synthesises the psychic and the social, the individual and the institutional.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 387g
• ISBN-13: 9781138804395
• ISBN-10: 1138804398
• Artikelnr.: 40759690

Autorenporträt

Valerie Traub

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Talking about sexuality in Shakespeare; Part I: Erotic paranoia 1. Jewels
statues
and corpses: containment of female erotic power (Hamlet
Othello
The Winter's Tale) 2. Prince Hal's Falstaff: positioning psychoanalysis and the female reproductive body ( Henry IV
parts 1 and 2
Henry V) 3. Invading bodies/bawdy exchanges: disease
desire
and representation (Troilus and Cressida); Part II: Erotic possibility 4. Desire and the differences it makes 5. The homoerotics of Shakespearean comedy (As You Like It
Twelfth Night); Afterword; Notes; Index